Emtek 8229 Modern Plate 3-3/8" CTC - Sideplate Lockset - Brass Thumbturn Privacy Non-Keyed Style

It ships as a complete set: the knob or lever you select, the sideplate, the latch, and the strike plate. Nothing else is required to hang it on a prepped door. The thumbturn side is built in, since this is a privacy set, so there is no cylinder or key to order. The only decisions left to you are finish, the inside knob or lever style, handing, and backset.

Handing is required, and it is the single most common ordering mistake on this set. Right hand and left hand are both offered, and a lever is handed because it has to point back toward the door edge when installed. Stand outside the door: if the hinges are on your right it is right hand, hinges on the left is left hand. Knob styles are symmetrical, but the order still asks for handing so the sideplate and thumbturn are oriented correctly.

It locks, but only from the inside and only with the thumbturn. This is a privacy function, meant for bedrooms and bathrooms: turn the thumbturn to keep the door shut against the room, and there is no key and no cylinder anywhere on it. If you need a door that locks with a key, this is the wrong function and you want a keyed entry or a deadbolt set instead.

Almost certainly. The 8229 accepts any Emtek brass knob or lever style for the inside trim, and there are close to 90 to choose from, spanning Modern shapes like the Ace, Spoke, L-Bar, T-Bar and R-Bar, traditional knobs like Providence and Waverly, and crystal options like Bristol and Windsor. Pick the same style already on your passage and entry doors and the openings read as one set. Six finishes are offered: Oil Rubbed Bronze, Satin Nickel, Flat Black, Polished Chrome, Unlacquered Brass and Satin Brass.

Both are solid brass sideplate locksets, but they serve different openings. The Emtek 8229 is a privacy/bed/bath function, non-keyed, operated by a thumbturn from the inside - the right choice for a bedroom, bathroom, or office door where the room needs to be secured from within but no key is wanted. The Omnia D12036A is a single cylinder deadbolt lever lockset, which means it takes a key on the exterior side, making it an entry-door product. If you are trimming interior doors, the 8229 is the one; if the door leads outside or to a secured space, the D12036A is the one.

For a non-functioning opening - a fixed panel, a closet door held by a magnetic catch, or one leaf of a pair - the Omnia D12036PD is a double dummy sideplate lockset with plates, built for a door that does not latch or lock. The Emtek 8229 is a working privacy lockset with a latch and a thumbturn, so it is specified where the door actually needs to secure a bedroom or bath. Buyers matching a run of doors often use the privacy set on the operating doors and a dummy on the inactive ones.

No. The Emtek 8229 is a non-keyed privacy lockset with a brass thumbturn, so it accepts no cylinder on either face. A door requiring key operation from both sides - common on a glass-front entry or an exit door where the facility does not want free egress by thumbturn - calls for a double cylinder product such as the Omnia D12036AC, a double cylinder deadbolt lever lockset with sideplate design in solid brass. Confirm local egress code before specifying double cylinder on any required exit.

3-3/8 inches is the distance from the knob or lever bore to the thumbturn on the sideplate. The plate mounts vertically over a single 2-1/8 inch bore, so the only hole you drill is the standard one, but you need at least that much clear plate height on the face of the door above or below the knob. On a door with a narrow rail or a glass panel close to the lock, measure that 3-3/8 inch reach before committing.

It's a residential-duty set. Emtek lists the 8229 as residential, and it is a solid brass privacy lockset built for bedroom and bath doors in homes, condos and single-family rentals. For a school, hospital, or high-traffic commercial corridor you want a commercial cylindrical or mortise lock instead, not this.

Both round corner and square corner faceplates are available on the 8229 latch. Pull your old latch and look at the edge mortise: if the corners of the cutout are rounded, take the round corner faceplate and the latch drops straight in with no chisel work. Square cutout, take the square corner. Getting this right is the difference between a ten minute swap and patching the door edge.

No. The 8229 always carries a working latch and a privacy thumbturn, so it is not the part for a non-latching or inactive door. For that opening, the Omnia D12036PD is a double dummy sideplate lever set on a 5-1/2 inch center to center, which mounts on the face and operates nothing. Note that the centers differ from the 8229's 3-3/8 inches, so the two won't line up as a visual match on adjacent doors.

Not necessarily, and this is the substitution that catches people. The Emtek 8229 is built on a 3-3/8 inch center-to-center plate over a standard 2-1/8 inch cross bore with a 2-3/8 inch or 2-3/4 inch backset latch. The Omnia D12036PD is a 5-1/2 inch center-to-center dummy plate. Two sideplate locksets that look alike from across the room can carry different plate spacing, so measure the existing plate center-to-center before ordering a replacement rather than matching on appearance.

They solve different problems. The Emtek 8229 is a residential tubular privacy set: one standard 2-1/8 inch bore, adjustable 2-3/8 or 2-3/4 inch backset, fits 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors, and locks with a thumbturn that releases from inside. The Omnia D12036A and D12036AC are deadbolt lever locksets, single and double cylinder respectively, which put a keyed deadbolt into the opening. On a bedroom or bathroom door a deadbolt function is generally more lock than the opening needs and adds a key to a door nobody wants to key.

Brass is the substrate, not just the plating, on the 8229 sideplate and trim, and the inside knob and lever options are Emtek's brass collection. That matters in a bathroom, where humidity is constant, and it's why the Unlacquered Brass finish is offered at all: unlacquered brass is meant to patina with handling rather than hold a factory look. If you want it to stay bright, take Polished Chrome or Satin Nickel instead.